Bihar fire claims two lives

Two boys were charred to death and a woman received serious burn injuries in a fire that broke out at Mubarakpur Bind toli in Bihar's Saran district on Sunday.
Police said a spark of fire from an earthern pot during cooking soon aided by strong westerly winds engulfed about 100 thatched ho

Two boys were charred to death and a woman received serious burn injuries in a fire that broke out at Mubarakpur Bind toli in Bihar's Saran district on Sunday.

Police said a spark of fire from an earthern pot during cooking soon aided by strong westerly winds engulfed about 100 thatched houses of Bind Toli charred to death the eight year-old and 14 year-old boy.

The woman was admitted to the government hospital with severe burn injuries, the police said.

In yet another incident of fire over 500 hutments were reduced to ashes and property over Rs one lakh gutted in a devastating fire that broke out at Shivrajpur village in West Champaran district during the day, police said.

Several domestic animals were also burnt to death by the fire, station house officer Sujit Kumar Sinha told reporters here.

Local MLA Narayan Prasad went to the spot and oversaw relief measures.

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